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Lacrimosa is a concept album about a vagabond and a lost love through death.

credits

released June 30, 2014

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Tom Gerwitz at Vagabond Studios between the months of January and June 2014.
Additional leads and solos by Kevin Gramza (Bereavement, Vagabond, In The Absence Of Light) and Jim Gerwitz (Where Silent Ghosts Wept)
Artwork by Autumn McGee
Logo by Jim Gerwitz

Looking through my soul
The image of my torment
Reflecting on myself
The loss of my elation

I know this is useless
They know nothing of me
Their thoughts are like plagues in the air
I am a cancer, a courier of death

I'll never understand who I am
And where I am going
A reflection in the water
A ripple is all I am

Track Name: Where Silent Ghosts Wept

As I walk through these autumn days
I feel the bite of winter on its way
These days all seem to fade away..
Vanishing into the darkness from which they came
I know this time the poison is seeping
I know its coursing through my cold dark veins
There is a darkness that is closing in
There is an answer that I am waiting for

Only death awaits..
Its open arms are all I seek
Let death surround me
Eternal sleep sounds so..

There is a reason I do not grieve
When you are not the one that I bereave
I feel like nothing ever changes
There is only an endless night
And in the morning there will be no sunrise
I know I will soon take everything
There is a reason I do not dream
When life is the nightmare unseen

Only death awaits..
Its open arms are all I seek
Let death surround me
Eternal sleep sounds so..

Quickly losing my sense of self
In a time where silent ghosts wept
Clinging to my hopeless plight
I'm losing control

The coldness in my heart has not yet withered
And darkness came
Fleeting emotions and lasting conflictions
Of my dampened soul

Only death awaits
Its open arms are all I seek
Let death surround me
Eternal sleep sounds so sweet

Track Name: In The Absence Of Light

When love fades
Was it truly ever there?
Withered like my soul that day
When all color seemed to fade away
Crestfallen, standing in my loneliness
When will the echo fade..

Pale eyes
I wander without a soul
Standing in your ashes
Oceans blue no more

Never saw the morning rise
You were nothing but lies
A cunning disguise
I saw nothing in your eyes

As sorrow escaped from my lips
Her silent ghost did vanish
And I saw only her fading footprints
In the falling snow

Another night has befallen us
You lay awake in the night
A voice is heard in the absence of light
Persuading you to go

Thrice have you left into the dark
Ever wandering through the halls
The curtain of night would not rise
The veil of darkness unbound

This is the reason I turned my eye
You never saw the morning rise
The night was all you ever knew
And death was the voice that was calling for you

Track Name: Lacrimosa

A cold wind blows at night
Silence covers what used to be elation
Peering into absent light
Where love once was

Roses withered in the cold
Endless moonlit nights
Winter of the soul
Winter of fleeing affection

I lay here with my thoughts
My kingdom of despair
Broken stone and eroded faces
Faces of affection lost

Summer came and left
Bringing autumn in its wake
The autumn of falling leaves
And color that embraced me
But coldness did collapse me
Swathed in fading hues
And vibrant color fled
Exiled from the blue